Why This Universe?
A podcast by Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman
106 Episodes
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8 - Is Space Flat or Curved?
Published: 18/12/2023 -
74 - The Copernican Revolution (Ft. Aviva Rothman)
Published: 04/12/2023 -
73 - Life Beyond Earth (Ft. Avi Loeb and Garrett Graff at the Chicago Humanities Festival)
Published: 20/11/2023 -
72 - The Physics Of Music (Ft. Tim Cohen)
Published: 06/11/2023 -
71 - How the Universe Got Its Structure
Published: 23/10/2023 -
70 - WTU Live: Will Intelligent Life Persist in the Universe? (ft. Daniel Holz and Diana Powell)
Published: 10/10/2023 -
Special Announcement + ChatGPT On Unifying Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
Published: 28/09/2023 -
69 - An Update on Modified Gravity (MOND)
Published: 28/08/2023 -
68 - The Age of the Universe
Published: 14/08/2023 -
6 - Your Tour Through Quantum Weirdness (Rebroadcast)
Published: 31/07/2023 -
67 - When Science Meets Spirituality (Ft. Alan Lightman)
Published: 17/07/2023 -
66 - When Space Was Filled With Music
Published: 03/07/2023 -
65 - Should We Build a Muon Collider? (Ft. Cari Cesarotti)
Published: 22/05/2023 -
64 - The Journey to the Big Bang
Published: 08/05/2023 -
63 - The Question of Consciousness (Ft. David Chalmers)
Published: 17/04/2023 -
47 - Boltzmann Brains: Could Reality Be An Illusion? (Rebroadcast)
Published: 27/03/2023 -
62 - JWST and the Earliest Galaxies in the Universe (ft. Mike Boylan-Kolchin)
Published: 13/03/2023 -
61 - Could the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the World?
Published: 27/02/2023 -
60 - The Search for Extra Dimensions
Published: 13/02/2023 -
59 - The End of Everything (Ft. Katie Mack)
Published: 09/01/2023
The biggest ideas in physics, broken down. Join theoretical physicist Dan Hooper and co-host Shalma Wegsman as they answer your questions about dark matter, black holes, quantum mechanics, and more. Part of The University of Chicago Podcast Network.